Paul Keating Quotes
In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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In charity there is no excess.
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The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization.... Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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I think the 'counterculture' believes that there are ways to manage being the world's most powerful country that involve creation of consensus - ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
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Tie me up, tie me down, make me moan real loud.
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Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.
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In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.
